The real winner of the Iowa caucus was Marco Rubio (born May 28, 1971), the junior United States Senator from the state of Florida who has served since January 2011. He is the establishment’s pick since they do not like Cruz and loath Trump. Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, so he is expected to gather the Spanish vote. Rubio is, of course, a lawyer. In fact, Goldman Sachs has abandoned Jeb Bush and is now donating money to Rubio. So you know he will be as any career politician — supportive of maintaining the status quo.
Wall Street and Washington elites hate Trump. John Henry Sununu (born July 2, 1939), also a Cuban-born American politician, was the White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Sununu was also the 75th Governor of New Hampshire (1983–1989). He is deeply entrenched in the establishment. Sununu came out and trashed Trump; he said he would not support Cruz and threw his weight to Rubio, admitting he was “establishment”. He also said, “The people of Iowa pick corn, the people of New Hampshire pick presidents.”
The New Hampshire Presidential Primary will take place on February 9, 2016. This will be followed by the February 20, 2016, South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary.
If this is what we end up with, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. We have zero hope of changing anything or even slowing the pace of our demise.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign money from shadowy sources is back this presidential election.
At least $4 million of it is flowing to outside groups helping White House hopefuls, making it difficult to trace who’s behind the big bucks. Both parties benefit from money routed through obscure corporations, or from nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their donors.
The contributions are a reminder of federal court decisions in recent years, like Citizens United, that loosened prior restrictions in campaign finance laws. That can hide who’s really backing candidates – and what favors or influence could be owed should they get elected.
“Just wait until this year,” said billionaire Frank VanderSloot of Idaho. The Associated Press determined that two of his obscure businesses gave a combined $175,000 to a “super” political committee helping Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. “We’re going to send bucketloads. This was teaspoons.”
Meanwhile, Democratic-leaning American Bridge 21st Century reported more than $1.5 million from its affiliated nonprofit, which doesn’t have to name its donors. American Bridge, which said it used the money to pay for shared expenses like rent and staff, was founded by Hillary Clinton supporter David Brock.
The AP counted more than two dozen groups that each gave at least $50,000 to presidential-aligned super PACs during the last three months of 2015, piecing together property tax documents, public records and millions of digital campaign finance records. At least half of those were unrecognizable names like family trusts, real estate holdings or firms that were far from household brands.
Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said voters need to know the sources of political money so they can evaluate how candidates will behave in office.
“These public officials may be bringing IOUs with them to Washington,” Krumholz said. “Voters need to be able to consider the source and see whether there are hidden motives.”
Opaque contributions aren’t new: In 2011, a once-mysterious group gave $1 million to a super PAC supporting then-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The group was formed by an executive at Romney’s old company, and that co-worker ultimately acknowledged he was behind the contribution.
But this time, no White House incumbent likely means more money to go around, especially during a contentious primary season. Much of the super PAC money so far has paid for pricey political ads, among other expenses.
The largest, obfuscated super PAC donation was $500,000, which came from an unknown “IGX LLC” to the Rubio-aligned Conservative Solutions. The AP discovered the contribution came from self-described investor and IGX owner Andrew Duncan of Brooklyn, New York, whose firm was listed in a prior Rubio donation.
Duncan helped host a Rubio fundraiser last October, and is on Rubio’s campaign website as pledging to “buy Marco a plane ticket.” At least half of his $40,000 in donations since 2012 went to Democratic candidates, including a $2,700 donation last May to Clinton’s campaign.
Rubio has said it’s important for people to know the source of political money. “I think that as long as people know who is giving you money, and why it is, people can make judgments on why you are doing what you are doing,” he said at a September campaign stop in New Hampshire.
Duncan, who said he worked as a technology executive and has invested in several film productions, acknowledged he was the source of the super PAC donation in emails Tuesday to the AP. Duncan, who funds human-rights efforts in China, said he admired Rubio’s work on the issue and had used IGX to mask the donation because he was worried about reprisals.
Even frequent contributors whose names appear elsewhere in Federal Election Commission data donated through an alphabet soup of companies.
VanderSloot, who gave under companies like “TMCV #2 LLC,” also contributed $150,000 under his own name to Conservative Solutions. Those contributions have helped the group so far spend $14.8 million in ads this election, according to political ad-tracker Kantar Media.
TMCV #2 LLC owns a corporate development property in Utah, whose address is shared with the VanderSloot-owned Riverbend Ranch in Idaho Falls, Idaho. And NG Montana LLC, which also contributed $85,000 to Conservative Solutions, lists the same address in federal records.
In an interview, VanderSloot confirmed he was behind the contributions but said he was not trying to hide the source of the money. He said the super PAC called him in late December requesting more donations and “that’s where we had cash at that moment.”
A super PAC supporting Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich also benefited from New York real estate developer Peter S. Kalikow, the former publisher of the New York Post. He gave $125,000 through HJK LLC, a company registered to Kalikow’s firm HJ Kalikow and Co.
Spokesman Martin McLaughlin said HJK is just one way Kalikow chooses to make donations.
“It’s not a mystery that Peter Kalikow supports Republican candidates,” he said.
If the Republicans want my vote they won’t run Rubio.
He’s just more of the same.
Like Cruz, he has way too many Goldman ties to make him anything close to changing the establishment line.
I generally vote third party and will not vote for anyone I don’t actually want based on that old worn out lesser of two evils and the Democrat is unthinkably horrifying theme. That just gives more of the same wearing a different suit to make us think otherwise.
This is b.s. Trump is not in this or anything else for the money; Armstrong totally misreads his character. And nobody is going to vote for pretty boy Rubio…………………
They’re all in it for the money and power and control. Trump is a bloviating reality TV star.
“If this (Rubio) is what we end up with, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. We have zero hope of changing anything or even slowing the pace of our demise.” That is 100% correct. Rubio means:
1) US-Mexico border left wide open
2) Pathway to citizenship for illegals (cementing democrat control of everything)
3) Trans Pacific Partnership (including its requirement for free movement of labor)
4) More neocon interventionism, aiding Sunni jihadis
5) Muslim “refugees” flooding the US
6) Poking Russia in the eye at every opportunity (until eventual WWIII)
In other words, the same as Hillary. Same as McCain/Bush/Christie/Kasich/Fiorina
Also, Trump’s not in it for the money. That’s ridiculous.
What this country needs is more assassinations.
I had this conversation with my son a month ago, republicans would never nominate Trump, they despise Cruz, Bush is a cold fish, Rubio is the great white hope.
He’s married to a former NFL cheerleader.
Proof positive that just because you marry a hottie doesn’t mean she stays a hottie. Photos reveal that she almost certainly outweighs him now.
Sorry if that’s harsh, but I don’t respect people who don’t take care of themselves. A woman who lets her figure fall completely apart (from a relatively high plane, no doubt, in this case) is telling you something.
I don’t doubt that Rubio is the “establishment choice” but so many GOPers are pissed off as Iska notes that it’s opened the door for a guy like Trump. Question is, since his mantra is “Let’s make a Deal”, will he take door #1, door #2, or the Presidency?
Unless the deep state offers him a “deal” he can’t refuse.
The only issue that matters today is immivasion.
If that’s not dealt with almost immediately, the details won’t matter.
Dems appear bent on running a felon or a loon.
Repubs appear intent on running an empty suit who gives the Left whatever its kookiest zealots want.
Never has the utter bankruptcy of politics been more obvious. Trump (whatever the hell he represents) is a great signal that people are about fed up.
Sadly, those same people don’t want their boats rocked. So until the wheels come off the bus, I suspect we’ll continue to hurtle toward an immovable object at high speed.
Great, just what we need is another effeminate, constitutionally ineligible, sexually closeted president. Good fucking grief.
Don’t worry, TC. If Rubio is the candidate, Hillary will bitch slap him to the curb.
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The Administrator( from his comment to this post):
“At some point in the coming months (the big money Republicans who control the party)…will sit Trump down and make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
What’s the meaning and origin of the expression: “Make him an offer he can’t refuse?”
“Meaning: The ‘offer’ being ‘do as I say or I’ll kill you’.
“Origin: This is the best-known line from The Godfather book (1969) and film (1972), both written by Mario Puzo.” – from phrases.org.uk.
Now I don’t think the Administrator is saying that the Trump hating elites are going to have The Donald killed. However, I do think the Administrator used the phrase, “Make him an offer he can’t refuse” to illustrate that the American political establishment is going to do whatever needs to be done to keep Donald Trump, a man they can’t control, from becoming President of the United States.
oh my gosh…an unconsidered wild card…
and gay? This vile system is giving us
quite the headache.
Admin,!!
You have recaptured some of your energy.
Excellent. You are correct. Trump is a
bloviating reality show host. We are
hoping there is another side to the man.
Stranger things have happened. Lest we forget, however,
O stated all sorts of “wonderful” things, promises
and intentions…and then did the opposite.
Could that be our fate again? Is that possible?
Are we that brainwashed?
Trump IS the “Third Party” candidate that the Elite hate; and the 15 or so other Pubs are all RINOs. If you want immigration fixed, the RINO’s control of the Republican Party smashed, and America first (opposition to the NWO enslavement), hold your nose and vote Trump. Also, please don’t neglect to pray that God does some miracle (maybe assign St Michael to touch his brain/heart) to give him a “come to Jesus” experience and humble his “big mouth”.
I have no doubt that the men behind the curtain will do whatever they need to do to get Rubio the nomination. I think it is baked into the cake as they say.
What do the dem’s do when Hillary gets indicted? Maybe they tell Obama to sign an executive order that allows him to run for a third term so he can continue his dream of hope, change and an Islamic America.
DC Sunsets says: A woman who lets her figure fall completely apart (from a relatively high plane, no doubt, in this case) is telling you something.
Any person who shines in one area undoubtedly fails in another. It is a cosmic rule, unwritten but also unbroken.
He looks positively jubilant for an opportunity to kiss the ring.
Rubio is GOP/Fox News puppet I expect he’ll be the nominee as well.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/03/5-basic-questions-megyn-kelly-forgot-ask-marco-rubio/
Fox News’s founder, Rupert Murdoch, is a co-chair of what is arguably one of the biggest immigration lobbying firms in the country, The Partnership for a New American Economy. Via his lobbying firm, Murdoch has endorsed Rubio’s 2013 amnesty bill, as well as Rubio’s 2015 immigration expansion bill. Murdoch has also endorsed President Obama’s trade agenda, which Rubio has said would be the “second pillar” of a President Rubio’s three-pillar foreign policy strategy.
Interestingly, the name of Murdoch’s immigration lobbying firm relies on the “New American” euphemism commonly used to describe the demographic transformation brought on by immigration. For instance, The National Journal has launched “The Next America” project to chronicle America’s becoming a majority-minority country. Similarly, the White House’s immigration initiative is called the “New Americans Project.” And the Latino Victory Foundation and the “National Partnership for New Americans” recently launched the “New American Democracy Campaign” to get as many immigrants as possible to vote.
Marco Rubio’s campaign theme is “A New American Century.”
The Anti-Trump Network: Fox News Money Flows into Open Borders Group
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/26/anti-trump-network-fox-news-money-flows-open-borders-group/
In asking the question of “what’s wrong over there?” Trump has shined a spotlight on one of Washington’s best kept secrets: namely, Fox’s role via its founder Rupert Murdoch in pushing an open borders agenda. The Trump campaign is a direct threat to Murdoch’s efforts to open America’s borders. Well-concealed from virtually all reporting on Fox’s treatment of Trump is the fact that Murdoch is the co-chair of what is arguably one of the most powerful immigration lobbying firms in country, the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE).
In addition to blanketing the country, media, and politicians with literature, advertisements, and a barrage of lobbyists pushing for open border immigration policies, the Partnership for A New American Economy (PNAE) was a prime lobbyist for one of the biggest open borders pushes in American history:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
79%
’s 2013 Gang of Eight immigration bill.
While Donald Trump has pledged to deport those illegally residing in the country and temporarily pause Muslim migration, Rubio’s immigration bill would have granted immediate amnesty and eventual citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, it would have doubled the annual admission of foreign workers, and it would have dispensed 33 million green cards to foreign nationals in the span of a single decade despite current record immigration levels.
While Megyn Kelly made headlines with her heated questioning of Donald Trump, not one of the Fox News anchors asked Rubio in the first Fox News debate about his signature piece of legislation, which Murdoch’s immigration lobbying firm had endorsed. Instead, they lobbed Rubio a series of softballs, such as asking Rubio if he could put God and veterans in the same sentence.
Interestingly, Bill Sammon — FOX News’s vice president of News and Washington managing editor — is the father of Brooke Sammon, who is Rubio’s press secretary.
If the open border policies continue, there won’t be any Red team /Blue team to argue about, the nation will be California. One Democrat controlled nation.
Only Trump has had the guts to speak about illegal immigration and government sanctioned refugee invasion.